by Hank Miller This is my 1962 Mizzou School of Journalism term paper on Marceline’s History of newspapers. The paper covers Marceline’s first papers from 1888, until the interview with Joe Belic in 1962. It is interesting to read about the early days, the depression and War I and War …
by Hank Miller The Marceline News was always looking for needed revenues to maintain operations in the early 1940’s. Most of this was done through advertising. This is an ad from 1946 for additional services offered to Marceline. In 1947, The News added the Bucklin Herald to become the Marceline …
by Hank Miller Letter from the Santa Fe Town and Land Company to the Public with the “PLAT OF ORIGINAL MARCELINE.” Taken from the Linn County Abstract Co. Abstracters of Land Titles, Linneus & Brookfield, MO dated November 30, 1887. LINN COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.ABSTRACTERS OF LAND TITLESLINNEUS & BROOKFIELD, MO, …
by Hank Miller How Marceline began – President James Monroe granted 160 acres of territorial land in Northern Missouri (later to become Linn County) to Henry Burkett on February 17, 1819. The land exchanged ownership a multitude of times and faced legal battles until the Tuckerman family sold the property …
